This photo gives us lots of opportunity to get creative with the Adjustment Brush tool, …which allows you to paint single or combinations of adjustments into…isolated areas of the photo like this.…I would like to use this tool to make certain areas of this photo more contrasty, …certain areas more colorful and certain areas sharper.…So let's select the Adjustment Brush tool, which is here under the Histogram…and I've collapsed my Histogram panel, so there's more room for the Adjustment…Brush panel, which we'll see when we click the Adjustment Brush icon.…The Adjustment Brush panel offers the same sliders that we saw with the Graduated Filter tool.…

I'll start by sending all of these adjustments back to their default to zero …by double-clicking the effect label here at the top of the Adjustment panel.…The first adjustment brush that I want to add to this image is one that I'll…use to increase the contrast here in the Gothic Mountain peak without affecting the rest of the photo.…Before I create that adjustment brush I'll check by Brush settings here, …

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4/25/2013

Learn how to enhance the natural beauty of a landscape photo with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. In this short start-to-finish editing project, author Jan Kabili walks you through corrections for common issues you may have in your own landscape photos. She shows you how to create a mood with white balance, enhance contrast and detail with tonal adjustments, increase image intensity, make corrections to specific areas of the photo, and export the final processed photo.